Sarah Whiting & Robert Somol: OKAY, HERE’S THE PLAN

Beyond sharing a loose grip on reality, this criminal packcalls for action more than observation, privileges speculation over erudition, and aims wildly at getting something going. Anything. Bigger pictures, funnier punch lines, larger stakes. There are disagreements here, significant ones, but they invariably unfold through an open conversation among peers and co-conspirators – a discussion over diverse means to a common end. The end, of course, is nothing more and noth­ing less than springing architecture and urbanism from the hoosegow of critical commentary and commercial complici­ty. The plan – with all its accessories of blowtorches, grap­pling hooks, disguises, and stopwatches – demands the reor­ganization of urban ecologies, economies, and establish­ments; the figuring of new architectural organizations; and the invention of alternative genres and styles. And, like all great plans, it's so stupid it just might work.

Sarah Whiting & Robert Somol, Okay, here's the plan. Log 5, 2005